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Ronald Pickup

“We shall fight on the beaches… We will never surrender.” We’ve heard this famous speech many a time in our lifetimes, and a few times in cinemas already this year too; we heard it in Jonathan Teplitzky’s biopic Churchill, we heard them again in Dunkirk and we’ve heard them once more in another Best Picture candidate, The Darkest Hour. There seems to have been an abundance of films featuring Winston Churchill released in the past 12 months, and all focusing in on the same fascinating period of history where Britain teetered on the brink of losing the Second World War. In the enigmatic hands of Gary Oldman, in something of a magnum opus role, Churchill has rarely proved quite as engaging, and with Joe Wright – the director of wartime saga, Atonement – at the helm, it would seem a strong candidate has been formed for multiple awards. Can it fulfil the ambition of the project though, and does it add any fresh mythos to the legend of the man. Continue reading →